However, up to 36 submissions to the sheriff's office went unseen because two of three forwarding email addresses were outdated. The third email recipient was Sheriff Louis Falco.

"In a nutshell, the FOIL officer at the sheriff's department wasn't checking the mailbox for the FOIL requests," county spokesman Scott Salotto said on Thursday.

Undersheriff Mary Barbera is her department's records access officer and she could not be reached for comment on Friday.

Salotto said the county's IT department updated the email addresses Thursday.

The Journal News had filed FOIL requests intended for the sheriff on March 4 and May 13. About a month after each submission, reporters called the sheriff's office and were told the requests had not been received.

In June, Undersheriff Robert Van Cura maintained his department hadn't received any FOIL requests from the county's web portal since County Executive Ed Day took office.

The county's technology staffers investigated the county's FOIL webpage after The Journal News asked why its requests had not been received by the sheriff's office.